Bug 1045039

Summary: RFE: qemu: Provide a per-VM way to not have libvirt strip emulator capabilities
Product: [Community] Virtualization Tools Reporter: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint>
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Last Closed: 2019-12-12 17:30:10 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2013-12-19 13:57:25 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1043249 +++

See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043249#c6
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043249#c7
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043249#c9
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043249#c10

Provide a way for libvirt to run qemu as is, without
modifying capabilities (or anything else).

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2016-04-19 17:45:31 UTC
*** Bug 1043249 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2019-11-28 13:04:53 UTC
Suggestion to just stop clearing capabilities entirely

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2019-November/msg01429.html

Comment 3 Daniel Berrangé 2019-12-12 17:30:10 UTC
commit 1902356231cbca6db733748051ec0aa4bd208c48
Author: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange>
Date:   Thu Nov 28 14:27:54 2019 +0000

    qemu: keep capabilities when running QEMU as root